"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on patience
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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time."

Voltaire on patience
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"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on patience
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi on patience
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success."

Maistre, Joseph De on patience   

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on patience   

"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."

Kafka, Franz on patience   

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

Franklin, Benjamin on patience
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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on patience
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"All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on patience
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